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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.

Samuel Beckett

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Beginning End Philosophy Wisdom
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
SAMUEL BECKETT

End Greatness Light Myself Patience Shadow Shine
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
SAMUEL BECKETT

Moments Place Time
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Change Mistake Myself
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Conversation Myself Polite Try
But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Death Live Myself
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
SAMUEL BECKETT

End Fly Greatness Head Image Myself Pursue Trouble Word
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Born Crazy Remain
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Artist Mess Task Work
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Alcohol Grudge Whiskey

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